Whitefish Bay Village Trustee David Fee “was highly critical” of the renovation and building expansions on the Karl Jewish Community Campus, according to Betty Lieberman.
A Whitefish Bay resident, Lieberman is also the Milwaukee Jewish Federation’s director of capital building projects.
Fee himself acknowledged in an interview with blogger Kevin Buckley (“Village Spillage”) on Feb. 21 that he had originally run for his seat three years ago “to represent the northern side of Whitefish Bay during the JCC expansion.”
During the elections last week for two seats on the Bay Village Board, Lieberman had on her lawn a sign for one of Fee’s two challengers, Julie Siegel.
Fee had been expected to win his seat back, leaving one seat to be contested by the other two candidates, Siegel and Thomas H. Fehring.
But in what North Shore Now’s April 3 article called “a major upset,” Fee lost to the other two, receiving 24.8 percent of the vote to Siegel’s 39.6 and Fehring’s 35.6.
“We hope the new trustees will understand that we have common goals,” Lieberman told The Chronicle Monday. “Our goal is to be good neighbors and work with the village to have the campus be an asset to the entire community, as well as the Jewish community.”
Siegel, 42, is a homemaker who has academic degrees in business and social work, according to her campaign literature. She told The Chronicle in a recent telephone interview that she is Jewish; and she, her husband, Roger, and their three teenaged children attend services at the Chabad Lubavitch House.
She also said her family had belonged to the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, the largest agency on the Karl Campus, when her children were younger, for the nursery school, swim lessons and day camps; but have since dropped membership. “We have not been members for years,” she said.
She said that during her discussions with villagers during her campaign, the Karl Campus did not appear to be a significant issue. “People were more concerned about snow plowing and the Silver Spring Redevelopment” — the plans to revitalize the Silver Spring Dr. business district.
“I am going to keep an open mind on all matters” relating to the Karl Campus as well as other village issues, Siegel said.
Siegel takes office officially on April 15 and will attend her first Village Board meeting as trustee on April 21.
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